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Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticlesMaster Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles
Master Bezaes sermons upon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles wherein are handled the chiefest points of religion controversed and debated between us and the adversary at this day, especially touching the true Jesus Christ and the true Church, and the certain & infallible marks both of the one and of the other. Translated out of French into English by John Harmar ...Master Bezaes sermons vpon the three chapters of the canticle of canticles wherein are handled the chiefest points of religion controversed and debated betweene vs and the aduersarie at this day, especially touching the true Iesus Christ and the true Church, and the certaine & infallible marks both of the one and of the other. Translated out of French into English by Iohn Harmar ...
Oxford: printed by Joseph Barnes, 1587Oxford: printed by Ioseph Barnes, 1587
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
THE EIGHTEENTH SERMON. Our help be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the second Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the 5.6. and 7. verses.
THE EIGHTEENTH SERMON. Our helpe be in the name of God, &c. It is written as followeth in the second Chapter of the Canticle of Canticles, the 5.6. and 7. verses.
5 Cause my spirits to come unto me with those flagons: make me a bed with those Apples: for I faint (or sound) with love. 6 Let his left hand be under my head, and let his right hand embrace me. 7 Daughters of Jerusalem, I charge you by the Roes and by the Hinds, that ye stir not up, nor waken my love, until she please.
5 Cause my spirites to come vnto me with those flagons: make mee a bed with those Apples: for I faint (or sound) with loue. 6 Let his left hand be vnder my head, and let his right hand embrace me. 7 Daughters of Ierusalem, I charge you by the Roes and by the Hindes, that ye stir not vp, nor waken my loue, vntil she please.
1 The most perfect are not capable of the sweetness of the meats of this banquet, but we may not have less appetite for all this. 2 A complaint against the contempt of this sweet and wholesome nourishment. 3 The difference between that wine ⟨p. 228⟩which is drawn out of the true vessels, and that which is sower, musty, poisoned, as well old as new, and from what tree the true apples, which fetch our spirits again unto us, are gathered. 4 The virtue and force which maketh our eating and drinking in this feast profitable unto us consisteth and resteth in God alone; and the great abuse committed both in this point as also in doctrine, and the sacraments. 5 Wherefore the spouse is not contented to be held up with one of her Bridegrooms hands only. 6 We must by particular meditation digest the spiritual nourishment we receive in this banquet. 7 Satan and his complices busy themselves in nothing more, then to hinder this digestion, but the Bridegroom holdeth them and bridleth them so far as pleaseth him. 8 It is especially needful that God repress those who trouble the repose and quiet of his spouse within. 9 God wanteth no executioners of his just judgements, especial against the perturbers and troublers of his spouses repose and peace. 10 After meditation we must awake, and proceed to the practise of a christian life: and touching great abuse committed in this behalf. 11 A conclusion touching the sum of that which is contained in this and in the sermon before.